Step 1: Instructions

Step 2: Stand in use

Some examples.

This is a simple stand made from an standard business card. It allows you to watch videos on your device (iPhone, iPod, PMP, other) without having to hold it up at a comfortable angle. It folds flat and can be keep it in your wallet. It is easy to make and replace.

Note: Due to the simple design, I hope that I have not copied anyone who has done this earlier. I've done some quick checks of this site and Google and haven't found anything exactly as this.

To accommodate my Galaxy Note in landscape mode with a silicone TPU cover, I changed the measures 10mm and 15mm from the long side to 15mm and 23mm respectively. This makes the base cuts around 4mm deeper, the base a little more stable and the flaps smaller.

I've been making these at work they are awesome thank! A little addition I made was to take another two business card and fold on about a centimeter from the end and slip it between the iphone and the stand with the folded piece pointing towards the speaker side. Then I took another card and folded the corners to of one side to the center so that it curves and then place that between the phone and the other card. THis seems to create a nice baffle to add a little directional improvement to the speakers. I'll take a picture some time and add it when I get a chance.

This is really cool, and works very well! Thanks!As an addition to this, I made one quickly with a standard business card, then, to make it more stable, I set it in a mini-altoids tin. It fits perfectly! Great Instructable!

Thanks for that design delerium. I thought it looked a bit like an elephant, so I tweked and augmented it a little and made this: The Ele-Vator SmartStand (my new business card) http://snurl.com/elestand

Hey thank you so much for this! I use this all the time and in face have made a template to print on perforated sheets of thicker paper. (I forgot where i bought them, probably staples or office depot). If I could attach it to my comment I would but I uploaded it to mediafire for anyone who wants it. Here it is.

Hey, I liked this Indi! Particularly as i leave business cards around at local establishments. I created a template to keep in my wallet so I can make a perfect stand wherever I go. Mark at the notches and the holes, cut and fold. No need to buy stands anymore. Pull out the template, grab a competitors card and make a stand!

This worked exactly the way I was hoping, with the exception that it wasn't very stable. So I just doubled up, using a second business card - stapling it in the two flaps that hold up my iPhone and in the centre section.

Then I have a lovely portable iPhone holder that fits in my wallet, and will be my iPhone stand for watching movies on long flights.

This worked out great! I had a card from a golf club that had a neat print on it and I estimated the lengths. FYI if you have standard business cards they are 2” x 3.5” or ~51mm x ~89mm. the 1/3 mark of the short side of your business card is ~17mm. I used a box knife and when I marked the folds, I marked on the back and pushed really hard with the pen so that it scored the card. This made the folding really easy. I searched for “Business Card Holder” and “Business Card Stand” and didn’t find this until I went through another website. This works great as a business card stand.

I've been using mine for a while now and it holds my iPhone in place on even the bumpiest of flights and even on my dashboard so my niece can watch movies in the car. I like to leave my iPhone in it to charge at night, too. Gives me easy access to the clock whenever I need it.

The iBend just launched today and it is the thinnest (10/1000" / 250um) thick and weighs in at less than 1 gram. It is also extremely stable. Check the video out on the site where you can spin it without it falling not to mention over 32,000 miles of flight tests in turbulence without it falling once! Oh, and you get 2 in a pack for less than 5 bucks. Take a look at www.myibend.com

Mine went through the dryer and got hashed. Made a new one out of galvanized steel strapping. Be sure to finish the edges with file and emery cloth to prevent scratches. Photos shown below (actually took me longer to post this darned thing than to make it in the first place):